25th Jun, 2025 11:00
Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025
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‡ A STYRIAN MILITARY BACKSWORD, LATE 16TH CENTURY
with tapering blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a long slender fuller along the back-edge, incised with a falchion mark on the reverse, iron hilt comprising a pair of ribbon-like quillons with patterned bud-shaped terminals, outer-guard formed of an up-turned plate pierced on each side with three holes at the base and joined to the knuckle-guard by a scrolling bar, the latter two each with a central moulding en suite with the quillons, inner-guard with thumb-loop, engraved rhomboid pommel, and writhen grip with a later embossed plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts with elliptical designs, including two bands for suspension each with a pair of iron rings, 96.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1408
Sold for £3,000
with tapering blade double-edged towards the point and formed with a long slender fuller along the back-edge, incised with a falchion mark on the reverse, iron hilt comprising a pair of ribbon-like quillons with patterned bud-shaped terminals, outer-guard formed of an up-turned plate pierced on each side with three holes at the base and joined to the knuckle-guard by a scrolling bar, the latter two each with a central moulding en suite with the quillons, inner-guard with thumb-loop, engraved rhomboid pommel, and writhen grip with a later embossed plaited wire binding between ‘Turk’s heads’, in its leather-covered wooden scabbard with iron mounts with elliptical designs, including two bands for suspension each with a pair of iron rings, 96.2 cm blade
Provenance
Robert Brooker Collection inv. no. S1408
Auction: Fine Antique Arms, Armour & Militaria June 2025, 25th Jun, 2025
Auction Location: London, UK
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